Getty Images Not a lot of detail on this one yet, but the Brewers have traded righty reliever Carlos Villanueva to the Blue Jays for a player to be named later.
Villanueva pitched in 50 games last year, posting a 4.61 ERA and striking out 67 guys in 52 innings. He allows quite a few base runners, however, and for each of the past two years he’s been decidedly “meh,” which is a scientific scouting term that I’m sure I couldn’t explain to you because it’s such a complicated concept.
Still: Villanueva’s strikeout rate last year was unusually high for him, leaping from 7.8 Ks per nine innings in 2009 — which was his norm over the previous few years — to 11.4 last year. Freakish? Or has he figured something out?
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- WhenMattStairsIsKing - Dec 3, 2010 at 4:36 PM
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Either way, the Brewers NEED pitching. Doing this makes little sense.
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- brewcrewchamps - Dec 3, 2010 at 6:01 PM
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No, it makes a lot of sense. He sucks. The bullpen has a bunch of arms better than his.
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- proudlycanadian - Dec 3, 2010 at 4:45 PM
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The Jays are obviously hoping that their coaches can teach him how to better keep runners off the bases. I do like the strikeouts..
